Reading Quotes - Page 38

• Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

  A. E. Housman

  Book, Needs, Way

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• Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.

  Isidore of Seville

  Prayer

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• Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

  John Bosco

  Book, Catholic, God Knows

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• I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

  David Hockney

  Powerful, Confused, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.

  Philip Larkin

  Couple, Thinking, Trying

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• Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

  Keith Rabois

  Book, Guitar, Play

  Source: genius.com

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• Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Acid, Pieces

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.

  Elizabeth I

  Together, Gathering, Pruning

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• I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Government, Want

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• White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

  Katherine Losse

  Wall, White, People

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• I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead

  Axel Munthe

  Book, Successful, Men

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• Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Magazines

  Stephen D. Krashen (2004). “The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research, 2nd Edition: Insights from the Research”, p.103, ABC-CLIO

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• Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Humble, Men, Passing Away

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• I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn't really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.

  Lena Dunham

  Mean, Ideas, Parent

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

  Doug Benson

  Want, Stuff, Comment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Book, Writing, Imagination

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• It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Crazy, Book, Past

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.

  Larry Gagosian

  Art, College, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.

  Irena A. Hoffman

  Dream, Growing Up, Stories

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• You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.

  Kamala Harris

  Children, Levels, Care

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it had never occurred to me to think of them together. I learned that Calvin was the most widely read writer in England in Shakespeare's lifetime. He was translated and published in many editions.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Thinking, Years, Together

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• The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Needs, Looks

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• A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

  Bernard Malamud

  Surprise, Worth Reading

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Beautiful, Eye, Tears

  Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

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